Review – Bull Durham

Here we have one of the great moments in baseball cinema. This has got to be one of the sappiest, most pseudo-intellectual bits of fluff ever committed to celluloid. In other words, it’s a perfect example of the genre. Kevin Costner speechifies, Susan Sarandon misquotes Blake, and Tim Robbins looks awkward. Despite all that, this film occasionally manages to be clever. And beneath all the goofy humor, romantic posturing and other clap-trap, the film’s saving grace is that it does manage to convey a genuine love of the game. Worth seeing